LOCATION OF CPI STRONGHOLDS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007300370006-9
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 16, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Location or CPI Strongholds
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1, The Co*munist Party of India (CPI) has solicited cooneration from the rarxist
%mord Bloc and tlle Revolutionary Cornunist Part:". of India (RCPI) for organi?
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sing a United Leftist '-ort in titida, 24-Parganas, B1,rdwan, Dirbbul, Vidnapore,
Hooghly/ Bankurs and rurshidabad districts.
2. A Unted Anti-&n e Go,r-mittee hrs been formai in Valda to exploit te aprarian
situation. !rine' anit rose, Satyaprivlarannerjee, Promode Sen Gupta and Pro-
fessor Kh$tish. Chrtter,lee (alv, Obat4opad1r7gy) will address a conference to be
held in Vada on 4 !larch 1951 to foster tt.e discontent of the agrarian. morcrs4
3. T's S?ndarba-Is area in the 24-Pz.r.agana -)istrict 1,ra been selected aF the location
for a neace convelo.,ien campaign. The village of Clat-Covindanr in the Burdwan
DIstrict )les been selreed as a c,-,.,ter ror agrarian agitation spainot the
Governnent's foodpra4n nrocrrenant ca-naign. The CFI, the Forward Bloc ad
India,, rational Arrly Leaders frum Calcutta 'aye cooperated in the ridnapore
District alnA organ "zed a nerre nroprganda Treeti g they urr-ed th peasants
to withold food gro4ns frum the procurement officials.
4. The CPT, in cooperation with ?e-^bers o' the Brvalutionary 'ocialist Party (RSP),
RCPT, and the Yarxist Forward Blo, T-as organized the "Un'ted Prorressive
Bloc" (LP) in Ftowrh for contesiing llowrah r?nicipol elections. hart'ok
Chandra T)-tt. President o' the rPr, is a CPT adherent, while the Secretary,
szanyasi Patnaik, it; e pTom4rent rier,Err of the All ---,din mrride Union ?empress,
1. n-or the ansnices of the UPB of Tiowrah, CPI leahr, ,Tyoti Bose; ROPT leader,
Ootrlendra Path Taore; RSP leader, Tridib ?12,:mclhury-Inve been addrezis:Ing
ylee-7ngs on the same platform, Bibhuti (alias Nouu) Ghosh, of the iarxiat
Torward Floc. hos Joined hard_s with ti-em.
6. Doth the CPT p-,)0 the "arxist erword 131oc haveiu=ansified their activities
In rowrall and its dstrinlsubrrbs, and have distributed a Thrge cuar;Mty
or-s 3n the rural -'rens of this district. glipravez TAIY-erjee or OPT
is resno-lible 'or 'he arms hoarded in this distr'st.
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The fOlowiv'Ir T)ersorl are inraml.nent CPI nam'oer3 who arc organizing the Unitcd
Leftillt Front:
Itelhalcrish.na Pal ? Poor!h17 district
? Banleara district
juotf. Chandra Gbc'sh vidnaroro district
'canda WO Singh ? Midnapors disizict
r. SaradiEvt Roq BlrUhrlm distr'et
"onri 3hattadrzATa Mnrecidabad
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